見守る
MIMAMORU
She waits until you are watching, and then she does it again.
Mimamoru is to watch over her while she finds out where the edges are, and to leave her room to become who she is.
It begins when the first year is behind you.
The sleep, the fear, the two of you barely speaking by Thursday. This one waits until you are through it.
Then comes the year they start saying no.
Climbing. Testing exactly what happens. Finding out where the edges are by walking straight at them. This is the year a child learns what she is worth while she is being corrected.
Correcting behaviour without ever attacking a child's sense of her own worth.
Paige Lamoureux
A year, and twelve weeks of it in a room.
The rest is carried at home, across a year, at the pace a year actually moves.
Boundaries, held rather than enforced
A boundary is a kindness when a child can feel the person holding it. The work is in how you say no, at half past five, on the third time.
Your own vow, handed back
You wrote it before she arrived. Through this year it returns to you — your own sentence, in your own words, in the month you most need it.
Raising a child in a way that honours the child and their magic.
Paige Lamoureux
Opening after AMAE.
Your child is already here, and you want this the day it opens. Say so, and we will write to you: Say so here
Every child arrives carrying a wonder that belongs to no other person who has ever lived.